be afraid

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I ranted about why on earth do people have this desire for the president to be "a regular guy"

This being Gather, some people replied with what I considered pretty terrifying responses.

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977219392

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The average person is just so fucking naive!

*pulls hair out*

ALL politics is hand-shaking, back-rubbing and deal-making and all our major publicly elected leaders have elitist backgrounds of some sort or they wouldn't be where they are and able to massage the system in support of their constituents/beliefs/high-fallutin' morals, etc.

I'd love to see how many voters out there would actually support a presidential candidate with a markedly different background than that of the average politico elite (think high-school educated, single mother who lives in an urban area and has to take public transportation to work because she has never been able to afford a car).

And then I wonder which political party would throw its support behind such a candidate, and just how thrilled political action committees would be at this prospect. Ugh!